The Electric State (2025) - A Shallow AF Review

Sick of those stuck-up movie critics with their heads up their asses? Tired of reading bullshit about "narrative arcs" and "cinematography" when all you wanna know is if the movie kicks ass? Welcome to "Shallow As Fuck Movie Reviews" - where we don't give a damn about "artistic merit" or that pretentious crap.

Think Blade Runner (the original) meets Ready Player One with a fuck-tonne of Star Wars style cutesy robots—like Ridley Scott had decided to swap existential dread for pocket-sized companions that would look smashing on a lunchbox.
That's The Electric State (2025).

Millie Bobby Brown continues her reign as Netflix's Stream Queen, delivering her signature performance that's neither spectacular nor disastrous—much like scrolling through Netflix itself when you can't decide what to watch. There's the obligatory child-genius who, naturally, possesses technological prowess that NASA would find a tad implausible. And loads of people get killed in fights. Except it's a (12) rated film, so they're (mostly) robots, which is somehow morally acceptable despite the central theme hammering home that these robots are as alive as people—a philosophical conundrum the film addresses with all the depth of a puddle in the Sahara.

It seems to be getting a critical panning, but (much like Ready Player One) it kept me entertained for 2 and a bit hours, rather like how I'm entertained watching bad parallel parking.

I'd give it 5 beers out of a 6-pack. 🍺🍺🍺🍺🥛 I'm saving that last beer for when I finally convince myself that all those CGI robots weren't just glorified Funko Pops with speaking parts.

More intellectual note.. if you want an idea of what the source material (Simon Stålenhag's graphic novel The Electric State) could have become, watch the series Tales from the Loop. It's fantastic, mind-bending TV.